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Hawaiian Airlines keeps growing in Oakland

Hawaiian Airlines is ramping up its presence in the San Francisco Bay Area with a significant schedule expansion at Oakland International Airport. Hawaiian says it will add new seasonal between Oakland and

Elsewhere, Hawaiian will upgrade its existing service between Oakland and Honolulu to daily service, up from four times a week. Hawaiian also offers daily nonstop service between Oakland and Kahului on Maui.

"We want to give travelers in the greater Bay Area even more reason to start dreaming about getting away to our beautiful islands and all there is to enjoy," Peter Ingram, Hawaiian Airlines chief commercial officer, says in a statement. "We are also pleased to support Kauai and Hawaii Island's visitor industries during peak summer season starting next year and also offer our island residents convenient, direct service to the Bay Area."

Here are the details of Hawaiian's bolstered Oakland schedule:

Oakland-Lihue (Kauai): Three weekly flights from June 15 through Aug. 15.

Oakland-Kona (Hawaii): Four weekly flights from June 13 through Aug. 15.

"The additional flights to Lihue and Kona represent a nexus between Hawaiian Airlines' growing network in Hawaii, Australia and New Zealand, and the convenience and central location of OAK in the San Francisco Bay Area," Oakland airport chief Deborah Ale Flint says in a statement. "Travelers will experience our shared commitment to customer service excellence with the Aloha Spirit on these flights from OAK, the historical gateway from the mainland to the Hawaiian Islands."